HC Deb 15 February 1971 vol 811 cc320-1W
65. Mr. Pounder

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will undertake a survey during the present salmon fishing season to examine a sample of the fish caught in British rivers to ascertain the level of industrial effluent contamination, particularly methyl-mercury pollution, in these fish; and if he will publish his findings.

Mr. Anthony Stodart

Salmon are included among the fish being analysed for mercury and certain other substances by my Department's Fisheries Laboratory under the monitoring scheme which my right hon. Friend announced on 19th January. The first report on the results of the monitoring arrangements should be published by the autumn.—[Vol. 809, c. 712–14.]